Lake Como Design Festival, London Design Festival, Detroit Month of Design and Tallinn Design Festival are among the architecture and design events featured in Dezeen Events Guide this September. More about Eight architecture and design events in September from Dezeen Events Guide
Social housing in Spain's Balearic Islands has won this year's Obel Award for demonstrating that public administration can be "a genuine engine for change". More about Balearic Islands' model for social housing wins Obel Award 2026
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has been named the recipient of the Andrée Putman Lifetime Achievement Award for 2027 by the Créateurs Design Association & Awards. More about Kengo Kuma awarded Andrée Putman Lifetime Achievement Award by CDA
As Burning Man kicks off its 40th-anniversary event in Nevada, we rounded up the work of 12 architecture studios featured at the festival over the years, including BIG and Arthur Mamou-Mani. More about Twelve installations designed by architects at Burning Man over the years
Portuguese studio António Costa Lima Arquitectos has completed Praia do Bom Sucesso, a block of three homes in Lisbon with an industrial-feeling structure of exposed brickwork and weathered steel. More about António Costa Lima Arquitectos completes warehouse-style housing block in Lisbon
A scrap-metal-and-glass lamp and a bed made from a stack of pillows feature in this roundup of furniture and lighting spotted by design and interiors reporter Jane Englefield over the past month. More about Dezeen's favourite furniture and lighting from August
Barcelona-based H3O architects has renovated a 19th-century house in the city's Gracia neighbourhood, taking care to preserve heritage elements while introducing quirky details like hidden windows. More about H3O uses "playful and intelligent gestures" to update historic Barcelona home
Grassy rooftops and PE rattan facades characterise Split Mass Residence in Indonesia, which local firm K-Thengono Design Studio designed with multi-level social spaces for the family to gather. More about Sloping green roofs "keep the family connected" at Indonesian home
A stone house embedded into the Greek landscape and a sprawling American home with a retractable roof are among the most popular houses featured on Dezeen this month. More about Dezeen's top five houses of August 2026
Foster + Partners has developed a showroom concept for British motorcycle brand Norton Motorcycles, including sleek metal display stands that present the vehicles like sculptures on a plinth. More about Foster + Partners designs retail podium to highlight "precision and modernity" of Norton Motorcycles
Dezeen School Shows: an art neouveau-style cafe and shop located at a racecourse is among the projects from Hong Kong Design Institute. More about Art nouveau-style racecourse cafe among projects from the Hong Kong Design Institute
This waterfront residence overlooking Michigan's Grand Traverse Bay has been reimagined to include a "mosh pit" lounge by California-based Lauri Design Studio. More about Lauri Design Studio renovates "calm, connected" Michigan lake house
A tilted facade with large glazed openings was designed to bring an adjacent forest "directly into the interior" of this home in the Czech Republic by Prague-based Papundekl Architects. More about Slanted facade encloses modular Czech home by Papundekl Architects
Traditional farmhouses often have thick stone walls that block the view of the natural vistas that surround them. Below, we've gathered six examples of modern interventions that instead open up historic homes to make the most of their setting. More about Six farmhouse renovations that bring their bucolic surroundings into view
This week on Dezeen, designer Simon Weckert unveiled a colourful camouflage shirt that stops users being detected by AI video systems. More about This week we reported on a colourful shirt that stops AI video surveillance
Dezeen Showroom: from accessories and lights to seating and tables, the following items are all made down under by Australian design brands. More about Eight stylish furnishings by Australian brands
For its first brick-and-mortar venue, production company A24 worked with New York design office Leroy Street Studio to overhaul the city's oldest Off-Broadway theatre to host live productions and screen movies. More about Leroy Street Studio renovates historic New York City theatre for A24
Dezeen School Shows: an art market with large glass walls overlooking pine trees in Hong Kong is among the student projects from My ArchiSchool. More about Nature-focused art market in Hong Kong among projects from My ArchiSchool
Brooklyn design studio Craighill has designed the Swingtop Lighter with a swinging mechanism and snuffer as part of the brand's brief to pay attention to overlooked everyday objects. More about Craighill rethinks the pocket lighter based on historical designs
Architecture practice Nodecraft Studio has created a farmhouse on the outskirts of Bengaluru from a cluster of poured-earth walls and concrete volumes linked by verandahs. More about Nodecraft Studio arranges Bengaluru farmhouse around poured-earth walls